A List of current journals which publish articles in reading, with their requirements for manuscripts. (Author)

A content analysis of the best adolescent literature of the Twentieth Century was undertaken to determine the types, extent, and importance of older characters. The findings indicated that older persons were not underrepresented but were under underdeveloped and peripheral to the major action of the books. (Author)

A total of 378 articles were published in the "Journal of Educational Research" from 1990-1999. Ninety-seven (26%) focused on literacy. Information was categorized for each article with respect to authors' gender, multiple versus single authorship, study design, use of statistics, age of subjects, number of subjects, and kind of…

Television includes a substantial amount of sexual content, and TV's sexual messages are clearly an important part of adolescent sexual socialization. At a time when the nation is facing a sexual health crisis among young people, special attention needs to be paid to those media depictions that could influence how young people develop their…

This paper uses narrative criticism to analyze the ancient Indian religious poem, the "Bhagavad Gita." This important text, the second most widely translated piece of literature in the world, will receive much-deserved rhetorical attention to its narrative and how this helps construct issues of the self, the world, action, and ontology.…

To begin the task of evaluating the impact of state standards on American students, a study compared the structure and information of state language arts standards. The analysis focused on the 14 state documents that provided benchmarks or objectives by grade level for grades K-3. The other 28 states either provided a single set of standards for…

In "Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier" (1988), the U.S. Supreme Court said public school officials can censor school-sponsored expression for legitimate educational purposes. The decision raises concerns that high school newspapers no longer will publish controversial information or criticism of school policy. This study, a content…

Comments on a companion article by STRUPP on same subject in same issue. Compares conception of essential conditions for change with views concerning hypothesized factors in psychotherapy, and delineates some apparent similarities. Rejoinder by STRUPP follows. (Author/CJ)

Reports three experiments supporting the inference that the powerless are more sensitive to content that explains than to content promising reward. (TO)

Reveals that content analysis shows that media coverage of the environment tends to deal with problems of a community at a distance rather than with local issues. (TO)

Reports a study assessing the impact of role stress and role conflict on World War II correspondents' belief systems. (TO)

Separate groups of judges rated the degree of autonomy, impulsivity and desirability in a set of 60 items comprising 20 items from each of the three scales. Results indicated that the judges were able, through their ratings, to identify the scales to which the items belonged. The results were discussed in relation to facet analysis, and the…

Article considers the problem of an adequate analysis of the nature of a controversial issue and the teacher's rights with regard to such issues. (RK)

We should welcome books of healthy propaganda, but let's recognize them as just that and not make them the mainstay of our children's reading diets. (CH)

Refutes a study originally published by Edith Efron which contended that network television news coverage of the 1968 presidential campaign was biased, concluding that campaign coverage was positive for both presidential candidates. (RB)